Arts of Africa, Oceania and the Americas | Antiquities Day One - 17th September 2025
Lot 296
A Tsonga walking stick
Estimate £400 - £600
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Description
A Tsonga walking stick
South Africa
the shaft relief carved two spiral snakes, each with a lizard in its jaw and two further lizards above, all with inset ebonised eyes, to a colonial male head terminal, with moustache, beard, inset bone and ebonised eyes and wearing a cap,
90cm long,
and a 19th century snuff cane, with inset bone and ebonised dots, relief carved four spiral snakes, with penwork scales, above four heads, Christ on the cross, two naked figures (Adam and Eve) and a male figure in 19th century costume, a stork, the sun and crescent moon, a brass tack crown, a mermaid, an animal with a bird in its jaw and another bird, the oblong top recess with a head to the end, 91cm long. (2)
Provenance
John-Paul Raad Collection, London.